“Unfortunately, the engagement with the Minister of Education has not shown any convincing commitment to the payment of the withheld salaries and resolutions of other pending grievances of JAC of the two unions.
Browsing: Strike
The Federal Government delegation and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), are in a closed-door meeting to discuss the lingering crisis and avert a strike by the Union.
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on the Federal Government to complete the ongoing renegotiation of the agreement earlier reached with the union to avert another strike.
Medical and health workers in Oyo State will, on Monday, begin a seven-day warning strike to press home their demands.
The TUC president Festus Osifo said this on Tuesday in Abuja after a joint extraordinary national executive council (NEC) meeting of the unions.
ASHENEWS reports that the Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Muhammad Sa’ad, has appealed to the Organised Labour to shelve the ongoing strike in the country.
Memos from the education sector directing the same compliance came from the College of Education Academic Staff Union, Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, Nigeria Union of Teachers, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, as members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities also mobilise for the strike.
A statement by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), on Sunday, said there is a subsisting valid court injunction restraining the Labour Union from embarking on any strike.
National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Oyo State chapter, says the strike embarked upon by its members in the state on Tuesday will be indefinite.
The Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) has threatened to begin an indefinite strike on April 4.